27th annual International Cycling History Conference 2016 and Cycle-bration of 150 years of bicycling in America
Welcome in the USA
„Cycle-Bration“ - 150 years of bicycling in America
The big „Cycle-Bration“ event in New Haven (Connecticut) celebrated 150 years of bicycling in America. This was for an all age bike and rider event 2016 June 25th and 26th and was open to the public, free of costs, and open to bicycles (and riders) of all ages. This was part of the Arts and Ideas festival ( New Haven's largest festive).
„Cycle-Bration“ - 150 years of bicycling in America
Pierre Lallement memory
2016 marks the 150 year anniversary of the first bicycle patent in the world !!!! Pierre Lallement (lived Ansonia, Main Street) rode across the New Haven Green April 4th 1866 ( first newspaper account of a bicycle ride in the world) , he files for a patent April 30th with patent attorney John Earl, and the worlds first bicycle patent was granted November 20th 1866.
Pierre Lallement patent 1866
Pierre Lallement Bicycle Festival and Ride
We rode Pierre Lallement's original ride Derby to Ansonia and back.
Witty Velocipede
June – July 1868, Made by Calvin Witty of Brooklyn, NY under order of the Hanlon Brothers, copied from Lallement patent drawing. Non adjustable saddle or pedals.
One of America´s first velocipedes.
International Cycling History Conference
Very nice and friendly New Haven hosted this year's conference. Carey Williams opened the conference in very good mood and the same atmosphere was there for all next days.
Exhibition "150 years of bicycling in America"
One part of International Cycling History Conference was very nice exhibition at the Best Western, 201 Washington Ave , North Haven , CT (June 25th to 29th 2016)
Exhibition "150 years of bicycling in America"
27th International Cycling History Conference 2016 - Lectures
The American Cycling Experience - A Photographic Record 1850-1950.
Lorne Shields, Canada
The Hobby Horse in America, man learns to balance 1819.
Glen Norcliffe, Canada
Pierre Lallement and the Velocipede era, man learns to pedal, 1865-70.
David Herlihy, Boston ,MA
The rise and fall of the high bicycle; pedaling with a view, 1870-1893.
Carey Williams, Chicago IL
Boom and bust of the American bicycle craze, 1890's.
Paul Rubenson, Baltimore , MD
An Autobiography between the lines; Karl Kron's 10,000 miles on a bicycle.
Dave Buchanan, Edmonton, Canada
Reading Smart ('s diary). Mapping the routes and embodied subjectivity of a 1890's cyclist.
Christine Bachman-Sanders, Minn, MN
Trans Am Trail, America's Bicycle route.
Greg Siple, Adventure Cycling Association Missoula, Montana
Bicycling History Archive.
Joanne Riley, Healey Library University Mass, Boston
Joseph R Wilson Jr, State vs Yopp and the League of American Wheelmen.
Michael Gately, NYC
"Mount Holly and Smithville Bicycle Railroad".
Dennis McDonald, Medford, NJ
America's first bicycles: the velocipede era
Carey Williams, Chicago. IL
The life of Charles Palmer, (New Rapid)
Christian Wignall, San Francisco, CA
The safety bicycle
Nick Clayton, UK
Unveiled, a chain drive American velocipede tricycle
Lorne Shields, Toronto Canada
"Lady Cyclists" Dress and tricycling in Britain and the United States during the 1880's
Catlin Cohn, MN
The Needham Tricycle
John Malseed, UK
Wheel Violence
Duncan Jamieson Ashland University, OH
Bicycling and bicycling advocacy on Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 1970-present
John Allen, Boston, MA
The Henley Bicycle Works and its founder
Gary Sanderson, Verona, NJ
1982 The year of the plastic bicycles
Chris Morris, B. C., Canada
Overman and Eastman. The bond (and break) of American icon George Eastman and bicycle magnate Albert Overman
David Herlihy, Boston, MA
The church or the wheel, religion contends with the American bicycle boom
Chris Sweet, IL
Fred St. Onge and the Transformation of Bicycling in the Bust Years
Lorenz J. Finison, Ph.D, Boston Mass
Traces of 19th Century Cycling in the building environment
Robert MCCullough, VT
Cycling in the 19th century Gent
Dirk Van Luchem, Gent , Belgium
28th ICHC Mannheim, Germany 2017
Eva Gramlich
This monument was erected in 2008 in memory of Major Taylor in his adopted home town, Worcester, Mass.
Bus trip to see "Pope Manufacturing Company" in Hartfort, Connecticut and "Ames Manufacturing Company" in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Next abandoned buildings were nice too....
A fantastic brochure compiled by Mr.Robert McCullough. Very good job. Thank you.
We stopeed in The Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont to see showcasing the extensive bicycle collection of Glenn Eames with the exhibit "Pedaling Through History: 150 Years of the Bicycle“. It was top peak our way!!
Contact: http://henrysheldonmuseum.org/
Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and American located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 38 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds. It is located on 45 acres (18 ha) near Lake Champlain.
Contact: https://shelburnemuseum.org
Blacksmith and Wheelwright
Old SeaPort MYSTIC, Connecticut
Contact: http://www.mysticseaport.org/
